A grand jury has cleared Minneapolis police of wrongdoing in the May shooting death of a man police say had broken into a home and fired on officers.

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said the grand jury spent two days taking testimony from 19 witnesses — including 11 cops — and did not find probable cause that officers had committed a crime.

“I respect it and the community should respect it,” Freeman said of the grand jury’s “no bill” in the May 10 death of Terrance Terrell “Mookie” Franklin, 22. Officers shot him in the basement of the Minneapolis home where he had taken refuge in after he wrecked his car during a police chase.

“The criminal process is now complete,” Freeman said.

According to the police version of events, officers cornered Franklin in the basement. He struggled, grabbed an officer’s submachine gun and fired, wounding two cops. The others returned fire and shot Franklin dead.

The grand jury’s action did not sit well with Mike Padden, the lawyer representing Franklin’s parents, but he said he wasn’t shocked.

“We never expected there to be an indictment, ever,” he said. “This is no surprise whatsoever.”

Padden has challenged the police account. Among other things, he claims that a video shot outside the house by a neighbor caught officers using racial slurs. Franklin was African-American.

Minneapolis Chief of Police Janee Harteau has said the lawyer’s claims were “preposterous.” At a police news conference later Thursday, where Harteau extended her sympathies to Franklin’s family, the chief also said his “actions, not his race, dictated the outcome on May 10.”

Similarly, Freeman said any claim that his office was involved in a cover-up over the shooting was “poppycock.”

“It has no basis in fact,” he said. “Mr. Padden can say what he wants, but he’s dead wrong.”

“We think the police investigation was thorough and complete,” Freeman said of the Franklin case. He called it “a professional investigation.”

Padden said Franklin’s parents may issue a statement later, and they were mulling whether to bring a wrongful-death lawsuit.

According to the police version of events, which police officials further detailed at the Thursday evening news conference, Franklin was a burglary suspect and officers had been chasing him in his car. At the time of his death, he was on five years’ probation for second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, and he had felony convictions for making terroristic threats and illegally possessing a firearm.

Police said that during the police chase, Franklin rammed a squad car and later fled on foot. Franklin, the father of a toddler, tried to hide by breaking into a home in the 2700 block of Bryant Avenue South.

The homeowner arrived home, saw that his back-door window was smashed and notified police.

At the news conference, Harteau and other police officials read statements given to investigators by officers at the scene and played selected snippets of radio traffic from the incident.

According to the officials, five officers, including members of the SWAT team, and a police dog entered the house and began searching, yelling out repeatedly but receiving no response.

When they reached the basement, the dog found Franklin hiding behind a water heater. The dog attempted to pull him out, but Franklin kicked it away, officers told investigators.

Sgt. Andy Stender told investigators that after Franklin “twisted a little from side to side” and did not show his hands, Stender feared he might have a weapon. Stender said he advanced and punched Franklin in the face, then hit him with a flashlight. He asked whether any of the other officers had Tasers, and none did, according to the statements.

Officers said Franklin then charged at three officers, ending with officer Mark Durand, who was knocked off his feet.

“As Officer Mark Durand was forced off his feet and backwards into the laundry room, he removed his right hand from the pistol grip of the MP5 (submachine gun) in order to brace his fall and ensure that his handgun remained holstered when he landed,” the police statement said.

Durand told investigators, “As I was falling, I looked down and could see that (Franklin’s) finger was now inside the trigger well on my MP5. I took my left hand and attempted to push the muzzle of the barrel down and away towards my left. I screamed, ‘He’s got a gun! He’s got a gun!’ and then two shots went off.”

The bullets struck officers Ricardo Muro and Michael Meath, who suffered non-life-threatening wounds to their legs.

Officer Luke Peterson told investigators that he collapsed into the submachine gun with his bulletproof vest, “essentially as a body bunker for the officers behind me and to prevent the suspect from shooting me in the head.”

Peterson then shot Franklin four times with his handgun. Meath, who had fallen to the ground nearby, also shot Franklin four times.

He was shot in the head, neck, and upper torso, the police officials said.

The officials said Franklin’s DNA was found on the MP5’s pistol grip and trigger. They also said no gunshot residue test was conducted on Franklin.

Earlier Thursday, Padden had wondered whether the grand jury was given results of gunshot-residue tests or Franklin’s autopsy report — neither of which the dead man’s family has been privy to.

“It’s been four months and they have not seen an autopsy report,” he said of Franklin’s mother and father. “All they’ve been told is he died of ‘multiple’ gunshot wounds. They haven’t even been told how many.”

Padden has claimed that Franklin would have known it was suicide to grab an officer’s weapon, and that he wasn’t the type to do something like that.

“This young man is not capable of this kind of conduct, and it would be out of character for him,” the lawyer said a few days after the shooting.

Friends said Franklin had been studying barbering at a community college. His past, though, was littered with scrapes with the law. State records show that between November 2008 and his death, he had at least 20 bookings in five jails.

The charges had ranged from assault to aggravated robbery to domestic assault, theft and fleeing a police officer.

Franklin wasn’t the only death in the May 10 incident. A police officer responding to the shooting drove through a red light and was struck by a motorcyclist; the crash killed the biker and injured his passenger.

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